After a winter of cleaning up invasives, brush, and logging slash, in the span of an hour last Monday night Mother Nature decided to throw some things around and set us back quite a bit. We have been clearing blocked trails, but our ability to clean up much more is going to be limited by heat and also that we are in oak wilt restriction season between April and October. Cutting oaks, even downed ones, is discouraged because it can spread the fungus that causes the disease. We

If you walk the trails the next few weeks you'll notice many knocked down trees. Most of these are large black locust, which are invasive around here. As part of our forest management plan with the DNR they want us to remove as many of these as possible. Winter is the best time because of the hard ground and the lack of leaves. No, we won't be letting them lay everywhere, we'll be cleaning them up. But because of the volume it is going to take a while. We are also taking down

It's late summer, and school is about to start. There are still things blooming on Cave Bluff, including what I call the "Back-To-School...

Mid summer in Wisconsin means heat and humidity, which frequently means storms, sometimes wild ones. Here in Okee it seems we get one or...

Early spring, mid-March, has traditionally been burn season for prairies in Southern Wisconsin the last few decades. Why do we burn? The...

Having been on the local town park commission for a few years in two stints, as well as volunteer involvement with parks for over 30...

Okee Serengeti For over 30 years we have had a dedicated group of bow hunters harvesting deer off of Cave Bluff. Quite a few deer have...

If you haven't been out hiking lately, now would be a good time to go before snow comes. The leaves are gone and you notice a lot of...

If you go for a hike this fall, you will see signs like this one: What does this mean? Is hunting going on right now? What kind of...

The white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) is blooming, and that means fall is coming. I always call it the "back-to-school plant",...

When we got the first 50 acres of Cave Bluff in 1990, the next winter we tried our hand at prairie restoration and took down a grove of...

Welcome to the new Cave Bluff website. We decided to create a place where people could learn more about what is happening with the trails...